CDK Pipelines is a construct library for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easy to set up simple or complex continuous delivery pipelines with AWS CodePipeline. With CDK Pipelines, development teams can define and share “pipelines-as-code” patterns for deploying their applications. Teams can easily add stages to their pipeline to deploy their applications across multiple AWS accounts or additional AWS Regions. 

AWS Service Catalog is now available in two new AWS Regions. With this release, AWS Service Catalog is now available in 21 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Tokyo) and Africa (Cape Town). AWS Service Catalog is also available in GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East) Regions, AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

We’re excited to announce two digital courses, CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Technical Training and CloudEndure Migration Training – Technical. These courses will teach you technology features, best practices, and implementation steps to build disaster recovery and migration services with confidence. These courses, 90 minutes and  two hours in length respectively, are designed for solution architects and engineers managing disaster recovery and migration projects.

Customers using container services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), or self-managed Kubernetes can now send their container logs to Amazon Elasticsearch Service using the Fluent Bit log router. Fluent Bit allows customers to route container logs to various AWS and partner monitoring solutions including CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, and now Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

Amazon SageMaker Debugger is a new capability of Amazon SageMaker that provides complete insights into the training process of machine learning (ML) models by automating the capture and analysis of data from training runs at real time, with no code changes.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that is quick and easy to set up, and ideal for creating interactive video experiences. Send your live streams to Amazon IVS using standard streaming software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS ) and the service does everything you need to make low-latency live video available to any viewer around the world, letting you focus on building interactive experiences alongside the live video.

AWS Key Management Service now allows you to define VPC Endpoint policies, enabling you to increase the granularity of your security controls by specifying which principals can access your endpoint, which API calls they can make, and which resources they can access. 

Amazon Athena now supports querying the read-optimized view of an Apache Hudi dataset in your Amazon S3-based data lake.  

We’re excited to announce Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Primer. This digital, hour-long intermediate course teaches you how to support your Windows-based applications and workloads with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Featuring self-paced modules and video demonstrations, the course is ideal for storage engineers, file server administrators, and cloud architects.

Twenty-three new or updated Amazon Web Services (AWS) public datasets from the National Center for Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University, University of Texas at Southwestern, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Cancer Institute, National Herbarium of New South Wales, and others are now available in the following categories: